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What types of soil are prone to mudslides?
Saturated thixotropic soil.
What is mean by saturated hydraulic conductivity?
Saturated hydraulic conductivity is a quantitative measure of a saturated soil's ability to transmit water when subjected to a hydraulic gradient. It can be thought of as the ease with which pores of a saturated soil permit water movement.
What is saturated ground?
Soil is saturated when it has reached its maximum water content; if any more is added, it will either drain downward or turn the soil into mud.
A saturated soil sample has a mass of 1.38kg and a volume of 0.6 liters. After dried in a oven for 24 hours the mass of th soil sample is 1.13kg. calculate mass of water?
Apparently, the mass of water is simply the difference between saturated soil mass and the dried soil mass and this is 0.25 kg. - grade
What kind of soil causes more damage in an earthquake?
Saturated soil. Shaking it results in liquefaction where the soil acts like a liquid causing massive damage to any building built on it.
A name for saturated soil?
Another name for saturated soil could be soil liquefaction.
What types of soil are prone to mudslides?
Saturated thixotropic soil.
What is mean by saturated hydraulic conductivity?
Saturated hydraulic conductivity is a quantitative measure of a saturated soil's ability to transmit water when subjected to a hydraulic gradient. It can be thought of as the ease with which pores of a saturated soil permit water movement.
What is saturated ground?
Soil is saturated when it has reached its maximum water content; if any more is added, it will either drain downward or turn the soil into mud.
What is the difference between saturated and submerged soil?
when the voids of soil are just filled by water the soil mass is called saturated and when soil mass is submerged in water means the water level is above the the soil level or soil mass is drowned in water then soil mass is called submerged.
What does an earthquake do to saturated soil?
It can shake it about so that it liquefies.
What is a soil moisture surplus?
The soil in a region is saturated, and rainfall is greater than the need for the moisture.
What is Sudden movement of soil saturated with water?
mud slides
What are types of soil are found in estuaries?
rich and saturated with water
Why cant earthworms live in water or soil that is saturated?
they drown
Animal fats are said to be?
Saturated.
When rain falls on a soil flooding at that location would most likely occur if?
If the soil is impervious clay, or the soil is already saturated by rain.
